Mark Warner: We've Had New Information That Raises More Questions

[demmiblue]

Source: Politico

Congress late last year received “extraordinarily important new documents” in its investigation of President Donald Trump and his campaign’s possible collusion with the 2016 Russian election hacking, opening up significant new lines of inquiry in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s probe of the president, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says in an exclusive new interview.

Warner, the intel committee’s top Democrat, says “end-of-the-year document dumps” produced “very significant” revelations that “opened a lot of new questions” that Senate investigators are now looking into, meaning the inquiry into Trump and the Russia hacking—already nearly a year old—will not be finished for months longer. “We’ve had new information that raises more questions,” Warner says in the interview, an extensive briefing on the state of the Senate’s Trump-Russia probe for The Global Politico, our weekly podcast on world affairs.

Warner also warns about a “coordinated” attack by the president and “Trump zealots” in the House of Representatives to undermine the legitimacy of the investigations against him, an effort Warner says includes the president’s threats to fire special counsel Robert Mueller and other officials as well as a secret Republican memo alleging “shocking” FBI surveillance abuse against Trump that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is now threatening to release. Warner calls out Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, in arguably more explicit terms than any Democrat has yet, saying he has read the underlying classified material used in the memo and that Nunes misrepresented it as part of a McCarthyite “secret Star Chamber” effort to discredit the FBI probe of the president.

“We’re seeing this coordinated effort to try to impede the investigation,” Warner says. The Nunes memo, which is apparently drawn from information contained in the same late-2017 document dumps that has caused the Senate panel to expand its inquiry, is based on “fabrications” and “connecting dots that don’t connect,” Warner asserts.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/29/mark-warner-global-politico-216545

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Warner elevates his stature every week

He is really stepping up to the plate. Not with zealotry, or even partisanship, but with gravitas. This line of inquiry has legs to it. Is this why 2 or 3 Republicans stepped to the political middle on this yesterday?

[Justice]

15. He really does. Serious, respectful. Warner/Schiff may well save this country

[MBS]

20. " " " n/t

[MBS]

21. I completely agree.

He's really been excellent.

[Perseus]

2. I hope the FBI is investigating Nunes

That desperation is sending signal of culpability, I understand that some people are "ass-lickers" by nature, and yes, Nunes has that face, but I think there is more behind the scenes.

[Cosmocat]

6. Whatever Putin has on Nunes

has to be along the lines of the film in Season 1 of True Detective.

[TwistOneUp]

23. Ya know...

If Pootie And The Ogliocats have kompromat on Nunes, and Nunes has even a shred of integrity, he should resign.

I mean, it's human to err, and an error of that magnitude requires / demands a corresponding atonement of that magnitude. At least for us Americans...

If one is compromised and continues in their capacity to represent The People, one is a traitor to America.

[lagomorph777]

22. +1 and Paul Ryan, Tom Cotton, Ron Johnson, et al.

[True Blue American]

3. Mark is great

I do not think Burr is acting badly. But Nunes is a traitor to our country. I hope voters are watching him.

[lagomorph777]

7. I hope Mueller is watching Nunes. Morning Joe labels GOPutins in Congress as

"obstructing justice" and I agree.

[Maraya1969]

29. Me Too! And I don't understand why Nune's behavior would not constitute Obstruction

of Justice. I would LOVE to see him indicted, and convicted

[lagomorph777]

33. Absolutely.

He should serve jail time.

[wishstar]

4. Paul Ryan is quietly supporting and enabling Nunes

Nunes is taking the heat, but Ryan is backing him up 100% behind the scenes

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Which implies they are in collusion

or conspiracy if you prefer the term

I would bet these 2 are the nexus of campaign cash flow, their actions seem suspicious

[not fooled]

11. They're all complicit

the rnc and other puke election committees got russian campaign money, laundered through dual-citizen russian americans and the nra.

All of them benefited, all of them are afraid of being exposed.

[True Blue American]

9. Of course he is

Nothing is done with out Ryan.

Do not forget Kevin McCarthy either. Trump lap dog.

[bigbrother05]

17. Remember - Ryan is Speaker bc K McCarthy wasn't squeaky clean enough

K McC has been suspect for awhile

[TalenaGor]

5. where did this doc dump come from?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Go on.......

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Must have paper ballots

Near the end of the article:

“If you add up all of the money Russia spent interfering in our election; if you add on what they spent in the French elections, where Facebook took down 50,000 sites that were connected to Russia because they’d seen the Russian intervention, if you add up what they spent on the Dutch elections, where the Dutch hand-counted all of their ballots because they were so afraid of Russian intervention,” he tells me. “You add all that up and you’re still talking about less money than the cost of one new F-35 airplane.”

We can't count electrons; we can count paper ballots. Trading a verifiable election for a speedy count is a very bad deal.

[alwaysinasnit]

18. Amen to that

[questionseverything]

26. yes paper ballots ,hand counted in public view with a tight chain of custody

is the only way to get an honest election

wc to du

[yurbud]

30. it takes a new Cold War to get that?

[maddiemom]

27. Yes! We can wait until the morning after the election for the results.

When I was growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, it wasn't a problem.

[DallasNE]

13. Square Out Of The Joseph McCarthy Playbook

When McCarthy was so humiliated and disgraced we thought that was surely the end of such horrific abuse of power tactics but this is proving that thought to be wrong. Nunes is the new Joseph McCarthy and they can only rise to that level of power with strong Republican support. Paul Ryan, this is your guy - you own him so what are you going to do about it?

[northoftheborder]

14. These Repub Congressmen's actions undermining FBI & Mueller should be considered OBSTRUCTION

[Pepsidog]

16. Ryan must be a Russian stooge as well. Traitors the whole lot of them

[bdamomma]

24. the scope of this scandal

is so vast, Mueller hang on don't let them push you out!!!!

[lastlib]

19. Warner says the Nunes memo is based on......

"fabrications and connecting dots that don't connect." Could it be because Nunes is missing a few dots?

[onit2day]

25. Nunes is a traitor and a liar hoping for reward from the Trump crime family

[red dog 1]

28. K&R...Thanks for posting

[C Moon]

31. If the Repubicans can get Russia to help them, perhaps we should get Europe to help us cheat.

Fuck 'em off the face of the earth. Traitor assholes!!!!

[Turbineguy]

32. Nunes could be rolled up too

for obstruction of justice.

And failure to register as an agent for a foreign power.